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Originally Posted by toadzky
I am in the process of converting all of my hard copy library to eBooks.
For some of them, the author uses his own language sometimes (The Wheel of Time, Watership Down).
I want the definitions and notes associated with non-English words and phrases to show up when you move the cursor down to the word. I know how to do it manually, but I would like to have it done by the creator software and lock the notes so the reader can't delete them.
I've looked at doing a dictionary file or something similar but I'm not really sure how to implement that and MobiPocket documentation leaves a lot to be desired.
Thanks.
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Are the words defined in the hard copy, and are they footnotes or at the end?
If it's footnotes, then you're going to be doing by hand. But if a book has a glossary at the end, you could have each word in the book link to its definition in the glossary. With a good find and replace program you can add links to all the instances of a word in a single move.
Each entry in the glossary would look something like this:
<anchor> word - definition <mbp
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BTW, if you don't want to build a glossary from scratch, you might go look for fan sites where they might already have the words defined. You could copy and paste their definitions as a starting point for the glossary.